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TELL - US JOURNAL
ISSN : 24427608     EISSN : 25027468     DOI : https://doi.org/10.22202/tus
Core Subject : Education, Social,
The purpose of TELL-US Journal is to promote the wide dissemination of the results of systematic scholarly inquiries into the broad field of English research. TELL-US Journal is intended to be the journal for publishing articles reporting the results of research on English. The TELL-US Journal invites manuscripts within spectrum: English Language Teaching General English Studies Linguistics (Language Studies) Literature (Literary Studies) Usage The TELL-US Journal accepts articles in any English related subjects and any research methodology that meet the standards established for publication in the journal. The primary, but not exclusive, audiences are academicians, graduate students, practitioners, and others interested in English research. Discussions on the latest issues in relation to the above topics are the main spectrum of this journal. Research articles, book reviews, or annotated bibliography are welcomed to be published in this journal. All topics need to be the factual and discussed among the scholars in the field of English language and literature or English Education. The primary criterion for publication in TELL-US Journal is the significance of the contribution an article makes to the literature , i.e., the significance of the contribution and on the rigor of analysis and presentation of the paper. The acceptance decision is made based upon an independent review process that provides critically constructive and prompt evaluations of submitted manuscripts.
Articles 365 Documents
FUN LEARNING DURING RAMADHAN BY USING ONCE UPON A TIME CARD IN TEACHING NARRATIVE Sari, Dian Purnama
TELL - US JOURNAL Vol 8, No 2 (2022): September 2022
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (1060.626 KB) | DOI: 10.22202/tus.2022.v8i2.6165

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The purpose of this research is to teach English through a fun and dynamic activity during Ramadhan by using Once Upon a Time card. This learning activity was a part of an effort to increase students’ motivation to speak English in the classroom. This study was investigated through descriptive qualitative research where the researcher using participant observation as instrument. Field note was used to see their engagement in using English in the classroom. The aftereffects of this action demonstrated an expansion in excitement of the students to learn English and increment fearlessness and English talking abilities with regards to adequate vocabulary in regards to the material of telling story in sequence by using Once Upon a Time card. The results of this study are then prescribed as contribution to give Indonesian students one more involvement in speaking English.
The Effect of Poverty on Women Slum Dwellers in New York as Seen in Stephen Crane’s Maggie: A Girl o f t he Streets Alicia, Dona; Angraini, Dina
TELL - US JOURNAL Vol 1, No 2 (2015): November 2015
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Maggie: A Girl of The Street adalah novel yang menggambarkan tentang kemiskinan penduduk New York pada abad 19. Dalam artikel ini, penulis menggunakan theory sosiologi sastra yang akan membandingkan antara kejadian yang benar – benar terjadi dengan  apa yang di temukan  di dalam novel ini. Penulis juga menggunakan pendekatan sosiologi di dalam menganalisa novel. Pendekatan ini merupakan pendekatan extrinsic dari sebuah karya sastra. Pendekatan sosiologi ini di gunakan untuk mengetahui sejauh mana keadaan yang tergambar di dalam novel mempunyai persamaan dengan fakta sebenarnya yang berkaitan dengan kemiskinan serta dampaknya terhadap wanita di daerah kumuh di New York pada abad 19. Selain itu penulis juga mengumpulkan data melalui metode kualitatif kemudian di jabarkan secara deskriptif.  Dari hasil penelitian tersebut, penulis menemukan bahwa Crane dalam novel Maggie: A gril of the streets  menampilkan gambaran dari kemiskinan serta dampaknya terhadap wanita immigran di New York pada abad 19. Setelah menganalisa novel ini terbukti bahwa hidup di bawah garis kemiskinan telah member dampak negative terhadap wanita, yaitu: keinginan yang besar untukmendapatkan pria kaya, ketidakharmonisan hubungan antara ibu dan anak, bekerja sebagia buruh dan prostitusi. Mereka merupkan korban dari kemelaratan, dan harapan untuk keluar dari kemelaratan justru membuat mereka lebih terjerumus kedalam hal yang tidak mereka inginkan. Semua dampak dari kemiskinan itu dapat di temukan dengan jelas dalam novel ini.
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL OF RECOUNT TEXT THROUGH DIARY WRITING Autila, Rani
TELL - US JOURNAL Vol 3, No 1 (2017): March 2017
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (480.152 KB) | DOI: 10.22202/tus.2017.v3i1.2527

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This research investigated the students’ writing skill on Recount Text at Session 2016 A English Department of STKIP PGRI West Sumatera. Some of them had difficulties in organization, content, grammar, mechanic, and vocabulary. Then, they really need lecturers’ guidance in every step of their writing process. Therefore, the independent writing should be applied in each part of their writing process. As consequence, the researcher applied Diary Writing as the focus of research to solve this problem. The purpose was to find whether Diary Writing can improve students’ writing skill on Recount Text. The method of research is a classroom action research (CAR).  This research was conducted in one cycle, which has six meetings. Researcher used writing test, observation checklist, and field note, as the instruments. The findings of the research showed that the students’ writing skill of Recount Text improved through Diary Writing. The implications related to this research, the lecturers are suggested to use Diary Writing to help students to be independent and creative writer and for the next researcher to use Diary Writing in others kinds of texts.
STUDENTS’ COLLAGE STRATEGIES TO OVERCOME THE ANXIETY IN DRAMA PERFORMANCE Rahmalia, Indah
TELL - US JOURNAL Vol 5, No 2 (2019): September 2019
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Anxiety is always accured when students have drama performance because they have to speak English well in front of many people. Drama performance becomes the challenge for students since they are not only speak but also have a good performance on stage. To have a good performance, students should overcome their anxiety. This research is aimed to know what the students’ strategies in overcoming the anxiety in drama performance. The participants of this research were English department students of STKIP Abdi Pendidikan Payakumbuh who selected by using purposive sampling.The source of the data was questionnaire through some indicators from (O’Hair, 2010). They are boost confident, learn from feedback, activate the relaxation response, and use movement. It is consists of 30 items to 49 students which was analyzed by following some steps suggested by (Gay, Mills, and Airasian, 2011), they are data managing, reading and memoing, description, classifying, interpreting, writing report. The result showed that  boost confident strateg was 1850 points (33,17%) in highest score and movement strategy was 933 points (16,74%) as the lowest score Keywords: anxiety, drama performance, strategies to overcome anxiety
SOCIAL ORDER DIMENSION IN SUPERSTITION PREGNANT WOMAN FOR KUBUANG TIGO BALEH SOCIETY Ulya, Ridha Hasnul
TELL - US JOURNAL Vol 8, No 1 (2022): March 2022
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This research is motivated by problems and phenomena regarding the behavior and ethics of pregnant women in the Kubuang Tigo Baleh community. This study aims to describe the patterns, functions, and ethical values in the superstition of pregnant women in the Kubuang Tigo Baleh community. This research is a type of qualitative research, data collection techniques carried out by observation and unstructured interviews with informants. This research data analysis technique uses three stages, namely data reduction, data display, and conclusions. The results of this study indicate that: the superstition of pregnant women Kubuang Tigo Baleh community is a means of educating behavior, the superstition of pregnant women Kubuang Tigo Baleh community is associative, and the superstition of pregnant women Kubuang Tigo Baleh community is always created through the context of events. Therefore, it can be concluded that the superstition of pregnant women in Kubuang Tigo Baleh community is an expression of local wisdom in directing behavior, actions, and ethics.
JIGSAW: Helping Students to Comprehend Linguistics Material in Introduction to Linguistics Class at English Department of STKIP PGRI West Sumatra Perpisa, Lili
TELL - US JOURNAL Vol 1, No 1 (2015): March 2015
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (216.398 KB) | DOI: 10.22202/tus.2015.v1i1.1017

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This study aims to improve students' understanding of linguistics by using a jigsaw strategy. It is constituted as a linguistic study about language in overall. Language is a communication tool for a person which has several systems. Thus, the language itself is important to be learned and understood, especially for the students of the language. Another reason is the existence of several phenomena that researchers have encountered in the classroom in English language courses of STKIP PGRI SUMBAR. The study of language that is learned is English or English linguistic. First, English is a foreign language which is not easy to be learned. The second, the material on this language is a complete knowledge that cannot be separated from one another. Meanwhile, the time provided only 2.5 hours per week. Students are expected to understand the concept of language, how to communicate, sounds, words, meanings and applications. Third problem is learning strategies used by lecturers. Lecturer asks students to learn in groups. Each group will present a different material each week. Then the others respond, causing discussion. This strategy is less effective against the student's understanding. Discussion only occurs for students who had studied. Most of them are just silent. Likewise, group presentations, it will dominate only one or two students. The others are just as followers. So in this study the researcher wants to apply the jigsaw to solve the above problems.Type of research is a Classroom Action Research. It would increase the students' understandings of linguistic of STKIP PGRI SUMBAR. Participants that would be used were the student of English at STKIP PGRI SUMBAR who were taking the course Introduction to Linguistics. The data were collected through observation would also be assisted by collaborator. The instruments to be used are notes, interviews, and tests. The data is analysed by classifying based on the characteristics. Then, the data would be interpreted to see whether the jigsaw can increase students' understanding of linguistics or not.
EXPLORING CLASSROOM LANGUAGE IMPLEMENTED BY NOVICE ENGLISH TEACHERS AT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS Primurizki, Juliance; Suherdi, Didi
TELL - US JOURNAL Vol 9, No 1 (2023): March 2023
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Using English as a classroom language is widely acknowledged as the most effective means to encourage students to get used to English. The more often they are exposed to English, the more proficient they will be. However, teachers' awareness of the role of classroom language as a means to maximize student proficiency remains vague. Studies reveal that EFL teachers tend to use their own language in the classroom rather than the target language, English. Furthermore, teachers are susceptible to code-switching, which is the use of two or more languages in a single sentence or phrase. Despite the growing attention of studies exploring classroom language used by EFL teachers, studies focusing on novice EFL teachers with less than five years of teaching experience are considered limited. Accordingly, this descriptive qualitative study aims to investigate the implementation of classroom language used by two EFL novice teachers based on Sallaberri's framework from the English Classrooms Handbook: Classroom Language (1995). The data were gathered through a questionnaire and semi-structured interviews. The study's findings revealed that two EFL novice teachers use Bahasa Indonesia as their primary classroom language, including code-switching. Besides, using English as a classroom language became teachers’ dilemma since the students' proficiency levels and their experience in teaching are strongly affected their actions. Some recommendations and potential future practices and research are also discussed thoroughly.
DEATH IDEAS IN PLATH’S SELECTED POEMS AND ITS RELATION TO POET’S SUICIDE: FORENSIC LINGUISTICS STUDY Faradika, Vicha
TELL - US JOURNAL Vol 5, No 1 (2019): March 2019
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This article describes death ideas which occur in Sylvia Plath’s selected poems entitled “Full FathomFive”,“I am Vertical”, “Ariel” and “Edge” which focused on their relation to poet’s depression evidence before committing suicide. It can be used to investigate poet’s suicide case in perspective of forensic linguistics. This is a qualitative research that is conducted by using L.G. Alexander’s poetic devices and theory of suicide by Durkheim to analyse Plath’s suicidal motives. The result of the analysis shows that Plath’s suicidal motives are basically oriented to the stage of self-destruction due to the changing ideas of death from the selected poems from death as unacceptable thing, an unavoidable choice, gate for a rebirth to final solution of all life's problems. It is caused by personal feeling that completely separate from community.Keywords: death, sicide, poem, forensic linguistics
GRATITUDE STRATEGY IN RACHEL GETTING MARRIED MOVIE Wati, Zurmi; Theresia, Melati; Syafar, Dian Noviani
TELL - US JOURNAL Vol 7, No 1 (2021): March 2021
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This research is about gratitude strategies in Rachel Getting Married Movie. Gratitude is a word or sentence that someone says when they say thank you to someone else. The purpose of this research is to find the gratitude strategies. It is used Cheng's theory in determining the gratitude strategies that spoken by the main character in  Rachel Getting Married Movie.  This research is a qualitative research. There are three steps that are used in this research, they are collecting data, analyzing data and presenting the result of analyzing. In the collecting data, data were collected by observational method. This method was followed by non-participatory observational, recording and note taking technique. After collecting data, data were analyzed by using identity and distributional method. In addition, the results of data analysis were described by using formal and informal method. In this research, the researchers  found 5 gratitude strategies, they are:thanking, recognition of imposition, apology,other and attention getter.
STUDENTS’ TRANSLATION AND ATTITUDE TOWARDS PRACTICE-ORIENTED TRANSLATION IN TEACHING TRANSLATION Sariasih, Wiwit; Rafli, Zainal; Iskandar, Ifan
TELL - US JOURNAL Vol 9, No 1 (2023): March 2023
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AbstractTeaching translation with practice-oriented is not only focusing on practicing translation the text but also learning how the theory works in translation process. This research aimed to investigate students’ translation and attitude to practice-oriented translation in teaching translation. The samples were the students of English Department of Universitas Pamulang who took Indonesian-English Translation subject. The design of the research was descriptive qualitative research where the data were taken from students’ translation assignment and questionnaire. The translation assignments were analyzed based on bilingual competence; textual competence (cohesive and rhetorical structure).  The data from the questionnaire were analyzed based on two indicators; lecturer’s approach and classroom activity. The findings were 1) the first half semester the translations were mostly word-to-word translation that the result was not equivalent enough to the source text, but then at the second half semester the students observed the rhetorical structure and the message of the source text that made their translation equivalent to the source text,               2) students’ attitude toward the practice-oriented translation is positive and, 3) the students translation was considered improve judging from the score that they gained from the first the method was used.  Keywords: attitude, practice-oriented, translation 

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